Habitat modification alters the structure of tropical host-parasitoid food webs

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7124, 2007, Pages 202-205

  Tylianakis, Jason M ^a,c   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Lewis, Owen T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEE; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; PARASITISM; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WASP;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; HOST; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICS; WASP;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA;

EID: 33846215860     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05429     Document Type: Article

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